Finally a reason to bring your school books home on the weekend... target practice.

If Columbine had bullet proof text books you would have seen the shooters get jumped by a gang of text book wearing juggernauts.

Now, doodle proof too.

I don't think this is the answer we're looking for to keep kids safe.

Besides, it doesn't take a very accurate shot to shoot above or below the book.

If you have trouble with the video, here's the station that originally aired it. http://www.kfor.com/Global/SearchResults.asp?qu=Oklahoman+...
It's the first search result. Being from Oklahoma, when I saw that on the news the other night I was floored. I mean, wouldn't it just be cheaper to make kevlar book covers? ;)

wouldn't it work better to just let the other studdents and/or the teachers be armed? no school shootings in UT where teachers may carry in school....

Because the solution is obviously not to address gun violence but to simply make everything impervious to bullets.

Of course.

Why not just have all the teachers carry assault rifles, like they do in Israel?

No school shootings there...

People wear backpacks.

When people run away their backs are facing the shooter.

shot in the back = alive

I live in Oklahoma and my first thought was "sweet my kid will get some kevlar soon and I can take it out of the book and reinforce random crap around the house, oh.........wait, that would suck if my kid happened to be the one being shot at and all his books were missing the covers"

wow...textbooks are expensive enough these days, i can't wait to see the prices if they ever wrap them in this...

For the love of God... school shootings have happened HOW many times in history, compared to how many schools there are in the country? Why don't they all carry around portable lightning rods, to avoid lightning strikes? Reinforce the roofs of all schools to avoid planes crashing into them, or meteorites?

Gotta love when media scare tactics work.

scrag: thank you.

middy, they don't use guns in isreal they use explosives straped to there chests.

Wow, what a ridiculous waste of money.

If your argument is that running away they will have backpacks on...

1) They already have multiple regular books, it will surely stop a bullet.
2) Who grabs their backpack before running away?
3) Books are small, people are big, its not hard to shoot AROUND the book.

Last, everyone knows it is a scientific FACT that violent video games DIRECTLY cause school shootings. Well, the term "BOOM HEADSHOT!" didn't come from nowhere now did it? :-P

Before we try to get the law to allow teachers to carry, how about we start with school cops. Here in Indiana they aren't allowed to carry!

"While this is a good idea, and could potentially save lives..."

This is just fear-mongering. While school shootings get a lot of headlines, they are extremely rare. And the number of kids killed by rifles inside of schools is.. well, small. Columbine shooting? Handguns. Amish shooting? Handguns. Were any lives saved by textbooks, even though those are already known to be a "defense" against handguns? I doubt it.

The idea of wrapping textbooks in Kevlar is just absurd - it would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars on a state level, money that would just come right out of education and afterschool programs. And it wouldn't provide much protection. It would be a total waste of money that would make some people feel safer but ultimately result in very little effect.

So what's his plan? Take all those shitty textbooks from 1990--you know, the ones where the other Bush is still president--tear off the covers and slap some Kevlar on? I don't think so. They can't even afford to give all our soldiers Kevlar, let alone school children!

You want to save lives? Invest that money in healthcare for the nearly 50 million Americans who can't afford it, you jackass.

(Wow, I'm really all over the place today.)

I wonder how the mit media lab latop would stand up against a bullet ,were I work we are looking in to testing the laptops we issue for there ability to stop a bullet or for use as a self defense weapon.

This is a great idea until someone shooting at school kids decides to wrap themself in textbook covers first. This idea is lame.

I'm with scrag. If you prevent the bullets from leaving the gun in the first place, a kevlar vest, book, crocheted codpiece, won't be necessary.

Growing up with a school administrator for a father, I have a fairly unique perspective on this one. It's a neat idea, but how practical is it?
Will a highschool student have the presence of mind and testicular fortitude to try and stop a bullet with a book? I'm 10 years out of HS, I still wouldn't try it.
Will the textbook absorb the force of a bullet without knocking the student over?
If I'm the guy with the gun and I know the textbooks are bullet resistant, I'm aiming for kneecaps, forget center mass.

because text books aren't possibly expensive enough as it is.

"1) They already have multiple regular books, it will surely stop a bullet."

False, see:
http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/bot31.htm

"Last, everyone knows it is a scientific FACT that violent video games DIRECTLY cause school shootings"

LOL, everyone does not know that.

reason number 2018 of why I'm homeschooling my kids.

None of this addresses the fact that school violence is _on the decline_. Children are safer in school than they are in their own homes. Go google your own statistics- the moral of the story is that the fear-mongering media blows this crap out of proportion.

Speaking of fear-mongering- I'm looking at you Gizmodo. I see all the FUD you guys spread. I read the PS3 news bites. I'm not stupid. I'm on to you.

It would seem to be equally effective, and less expensive, to ban all clothing in schools. Naked people have difficulty concealing weapons. (although derringers MIGHT slip in, pun intended).

I'm confused, since when is an idiot politician coming up with a financially infeasible solution to a statistically insignificant problem to pander to fearful sheeple in hopes of getting votes a "sign of the apocolypse"?

"I see all the FUD you guys spread."
It's not that I'm afraid of my kid getting shot in school, I'm afraid that this guy is going to get elected as the Superintendent because of this retarded idea....I have no confidence in the public's ability to tell their butt from a hole in the ground.

why don't we just add Kevlar to school uniforms and make it manitory for students to carry bullet proof face shields?

send them to iraq. their kids need all the help they can get.

okay...i can see wanting kids to be safe in school...i'm still one of those kids...but that is ridiculous. i added up the square footage of a book cover and the square footage of the average person's chest (bullet proof vest) and the numbers are close enough to start comparing prices. the cost of a bullet proof vest according to www.galls.com is approx. $2500. so, this moron superintendent is planning to spend about $2500 per textbook to get them covered in kevlar. people are already complaing about poorly spent government money and then this guy wants to drop almost $10,000 per kid on textbooks that are going to need to be replaced in a few years anyways because of how much information is changing. what a complete moron. our money would be better spent making sure people like Superintendent Bill Crozier don't get the power they don't deserve. whats next from this guy? having target practice be a required high school class...only call it "self defense 101" because now days guns are the first thing people turn too. this guy makes me laugh.